An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6685-00-997-2719
NSN 5910-00-904-7782
NSN 6320-01-216-1678
NSN 6145-01-230-3595
NSN 5855-01-020-7982
NSN 6610-01-189-3001
NSN 5999-00-935-3361
NSN 6135-00-377-9165
NSN 5998-01-424-0190
NSN 5945-01-300-4429
NSN 6685-00-864-9309
NSN 5945-01-600-0600